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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC PRIZE
A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR
An authoritative new translation of Thucydides's masterpiece.
Thucydides has been essential reading for centuries. A sweeping narrative that vividly depicts the events of the war between Athens and Sparta that began in 431 BCE and would continue…
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1 author picked The History of the Peloponnesian War as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
You have heard of the ‘Thucydides trap’ but have little or no idea what it is, or why it might be interesting or even important? I can think of no other acceptable substitute for reading the work of the man himself.
Thucydides was born into an elite Athenian family about 460 BCE (when Pericles was about 35). His firsthand contemporary history of the Peloponnesian War (431-404) is an all-time classic, a possession forever, drawn on heavily by both Roberts and Azoulay—and by me.
I happen to be able to read him in the original Athenian Greek (which I started learning…
From Paul's list on ancient Athens in the time of Pericles.
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